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ZincSearch

Lightweight search engine alternative to Elasticsearch

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This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained search engines alternative.

ZincSearch is a lightweight, single-binary search engine that aims to be a simple, low-resource alternative to Elasticsearch. It provides a web UI and an Elasticsearch-compatible ingestion API.

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Key features

  • Single binary deployment
  • Built-in web UI
  • Elasticsearch-compatible bulk API
  • Low resource requirements

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simple to run
  • Much lighter than Elasticsearch

Trade-offs

  • Smaller feature set

Is ZincSearch secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect ZincSearch's latest release (v1.0.0-beta3). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2022-32171, published 2022-10-06 (1469 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

ZincSearch replaces

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